Research Interests
Youth agency developmentsocial justicelearning environmentseducational writing technologies
Opportunities
Work Study Positions Available: No
Grant Funded Positions Available: No
Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No
Volunteer Research Positions Available: Yes
Ongoing volunteer opportunities in the areas noted above. Limited graduate assistantships available. Please reach out if interested: esoutherton@wcupa.edu.
Biography
Dr. Emily Southerton was awarded her BA from Villanova University and her PhD from Stanford University. She studies the development of youth agency and social justice efforts and strives to better understand how they relate to social writing technologies and curricula.
Her research uses mixed methods, critical action, and design-based research methodologies. Her most recent project is: "Reimagining Youth Agency and Social Media Platforms with Middle School Girls and Nonbinary Youth."
Emily taught middle school ELA, Humanities, and Computer Science in Haddonfield, NJ and Jackson, MS. She also created the Poet Warriors Project, a digital publishing platform that amplifies the work of youth poets from low-income schools across the country: www.poetwarriorsproject.com.
Her work has been published most recently in the journals Computers and Composition (2023) and The Journal of Educational Research (2023) and in the books AI in Learning: Designing the Future (2023) and Literacies in the Platform Society–Histories, Pedagogies, Possibilities (forthcoming).
She's from central Pennsylvania, was educated in public schools, and is the proud great-granddaughter, daughter, and sister of Pennsylvania public school educators.
